"To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free...to a time when truth exists, and what is done cannot be undone...From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink--greetings!" - George Orwell, 1984

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It would be a rare historic event, if Joe Biden, the sitting Democrat VP, does not get his party's nomination.

You have to go all the way back to the Truman administration, for the last time a Democrat Party VP did not get his party's nomination.

This has not been the case for the GOP however. Neither Bush VPs became the GOP nominee. Then there's the whole Nixon-Ford period. Where Nixon's original elected VP, Agnew, resigned before Nixon did, and he never became a Presidential nominee. Then Ford's appointed VP, Rockefeller, was not even chosen by Ford to run with him as VP in '76, and also never became a GOP Presidential nominee.

The GOP VPs, Nixon and Bush senior, are the only VPs in post WWII politics to actually be elected President. All of the post WWII Democrat VPs who went on to run for President lost.

Is there some kind of copyright restriction on your offering these books for sale directly? I really don't feel like giving any money to the ex-publishers. Why should they be rewarded for working directly against your interests?

Hmm, I'd suspect that Joe Biden is engaging in bit of political panhandling. However, maybe the DNC has hit the panic button because their apparent "Chosen" candidate is unelectable(this doesn't mean that she won't win the vote). The all-important robot vote may decide the outcome.